{"id":10793,"date":"2019-03-19T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:04:59","slug":"vigil-new-zealand-mosques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/03\/19\/vigil-new-zealand-mosques\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil for Victims of New Zealand Mosque Attacks: \u2018That Could Have Been Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,\u201d Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall this evening for a \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The 16-year-old Cambridge Rindge and Latin School student urged the crowd to remember some 50 people murdered at two mosques in Christchurch by a white supremacist gunman during Friday prayer on March 15. \u201cOnce you forget them,” she said, “you forget me.”<\/p>\n

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Farida Mustafa speaks at the \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brian Corr of the Cambridge Peace Commission opened the vigil by quoting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: \u201cSpeak the names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not rest until everyone is safe,\u201d Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern said.<\/p>\n

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Cambridge City Councilor Sumbul Siddiqui speaks at the \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The victims, Cambridge City Councilor Sumbul Siddiqui told the crowd, \u201cthey are the ones who deserve remembrance.\u201d She warned, \u201cThis happened on the other side of the world, but hateful rhetoric and white supremecist ideology know no borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the lawn in front of City Hall, Imam Ismail Fenni of Islamic Society of Boston lead men and women in Maghrib (evening) prayer. More speeches followed.<\/p>\n

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Brian Corr of the Cambridge Peace Commission speaks at the \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maghrib (evening) prayer during the \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maghrib (evening) prayer during the \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.” at Cambridge City Hall, March 19, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,\u201d Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall this evening for a \u201cCandlelight Vigil for Victims of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks.\u201d The 16-year-old Cambridge Rindge and Latin School student urged the crowd […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,108],"tags":[42,279,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10809,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}